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Fucking awesome. The 'encryption backdoor law' in Australia went through!

Now, whenever served with such warrants, companies which are active in Australia will have to pay hefty fines if they don't give encrypted messages to law enforcement in readable form. No matter whether this means just decrypting it with the keys they have or pushing backdoors/inject code into the messaging apps/services in order to extract the contents.

Now let's see how much the big companies really care about their users! (I'd expect them to pull out of Australia but the chance that this'll happen is as tiny as about nothing)

Wtf :/ How we as people fucked up so bad. Facebook don't care about people, what a news, google spies and cooperate with inhuman goverments. Poultice lies and don't care about people, people don`t care about other...

Everyone should be obligated to record each talk and send to your local, ixompetent police...

Polish national health system has one site for pharmacists and it was tested and prove to work on FF29 and IE11 - fucking time machine. .. I put so much trust in goverments IT guys, so much. ..

So essentially because the government is too cheap to hire talented people to decrypt the encrypted messages they're going to try to force companies to have to go out and hire people to try to decrypt encrypted messages.

If one were to use triple encryption
RSA then Bluefish then AES256 and then send that message through somebody's software service Facebook whatever.

Good luck cracking that.

My point is If somebody really wants to hide something they can, and no amount of talented people will ever be able to decrypt it. This really only hurts innocent people and makes the bad guys step up their game.

Sad to see government making decisions out of frustration / taking the easy way out.

I see dark times for Australian technology companies. I hate how some politicians seem to be unable to look more than two steps ahead. They are going the NSA route but at least they are telling us about it. Very polite move.